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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 12
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Jehoash (Joash) reigns in righteousness—Breaches in the temple are repaired—Safety of Jerusalem purchased with the hallowed things in the temple—Joash slain and Amaziah reigns.
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In</span> the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem.  And his mother’s name <i>was </i>Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
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And Jehoash did <i>that which was</i> right in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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But the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 2 (2-3).">high</a> places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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&#182; And Jehoash said to the priests, All the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 30: 12; 2 Kgs. 22: 4 (4-7).">money</a> of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>even</i> the money of every one that passeth <i>the account,</i> the money that every man is set at, <i>and</i> all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>,
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Let the priests take <i>it</i> to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
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But it was <i>so, that</i> in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR gaps, holes.">breaches</a> of the house.
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Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the <i>other</i> priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house?  now therefore receive no <i>more</i> money of your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
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And the priests consented to receive no <i>more</i> money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
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But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money <i>that was</i> brought into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And it was <i>so,</i> when they saw that <i>there was</i> much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 24: 11.">money</a> that was found in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>,
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And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair <i>it.</i>
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Howbeit there were not made for the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 24: 14.">bowls</a> of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money <i>that was</i> brought into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>:
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But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Moreover they <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 22: 7 (6-7).">reckoned</a> not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 5: 15 (15-16).">trespass</a> money and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 4: 23 (22-26); Lev. 7: 7.">sin</a> money was not brought into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: it was the priests’.
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&#182; Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
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And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 15: 18 (18-22).">hallowed</a> things, and all the gold <i>that was</i> found in the treasures of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and in the king’s house, and sent <i>it</i> to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
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&#182; And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 14: 5 (5-6).">slew</a> Joash in the house of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/12/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Sam. 5: 9; 1 Kgs. 9: 15 (15, 24); 1 Kgs. 11: 27; 2 Chr. 32: 5.">Millo</a>, which goeth down to Silla.
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For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
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